gnome-shell fails to start in xephyr

[Yann Simon]

With version from desktop-team PPA: 0.0.1~git20090702-0ubuntu0.1

$ gnome-shell
xauth: creating new authority file /tmp/gnome-shell._6spEQ/database
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
[config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (Connection ":1.107" is not allowed to own the service "org.x.config.display86" due to security policies in the configuration file)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "switch_to_workspace_up"
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "switch_to_workspace_down"
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "move_to_workspace_up"
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "move_to_workspace_down"
    JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found
    JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw'
    JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@:0
("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:8
'
    JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found'
    JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found
    JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw'
    JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@:0
("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:8
'
    JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found'
Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 762 requests (762 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":86.0"
      after 57 requests (51 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":86.0"
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":86.0"
      after 126 requests (126 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Have you installed mutter?

[Yann Simon (yann-simon-fr)]

Yes, mutter was automatically installed when installation the
gnome-shell package.

[morryis (morryis)]

I can confirm this with the following packages installed:

gobject-introspection (0.6.3-0ubuntu1)
gobject-introspection-glib-2.0 (0.6.3-0ubuntu1)
libclutter-0.8-0 (0.8.8-0ubuntu1)
gobject-introspection-repository (0.6.4~git20090630-0ubuntu1)
libclutter-0.9-0 (0.9.4-0ubuntu3)
mutter-common (2.27.0~git090630-0ubuntu3)
libmutter0 (2.27.0~git090630-0ubuntu3)
mutter (2.27.0~git090630-0ubuntu3)
gnome-shell (0.0.1~git20090702-0ubuntu0.1)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your interest but gnome-shell is not officially available in ubuntu and bugs should go to bugzilla.gnome.org

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you need to install libclutter-0.9-dev to fix this issue